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Message:: [QUOTE="Drusus, post: 513630, member: 6370"]Yes, they want to preserve the coin while making it look nice as well...that is what I want for my coins. I dont think museums harm a coin or destroy its value and I am sure the coins they use renwax on (as well as the myriad of other things they use it on) WILL retain their value. Museums have whole packages of documents with procedures spelled out step by step as to how they treat their antiquities (no secrets kept)...especially the Smithsonian and the British Museum who deal with lots of coins. I would bet that the coins I have used renwax on will retain their value as most would (save american because of the mindset of those collectors). I am about as anal about preserving my antiquities as any museum.  Also, as far as I can tell, renwax is not frowned upon nearly as much by collectors of antiquities as repatination...I have not heard or seen many people complaining about renwax but I, and many others, do not want a coin repatinated...there is a big difference between the two...One is an alteration...in essence coloring a coin or promoting corrossion...the other is a small amount of added protection for a coin that might be 2000+ years old. But yes, if you of the mind set that soft cotton harms coins, and on the whole coins should not be touched, then you shouldn't use it.[/QUOTE]